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Instead of addressing the issue of priestless parishes, bishops think it's important to "tinker" with things like bowing and telling them not to talk in church before Mass, as if they were children.

They SHOULD be dealing with the priestless parish issue. However, they should've been dealing with the reverence issues as well. Too much talking in the Nave which is typically reserved for worship. Church halls are wonderful places for fellowship. Reverence towards the Eucharist is non-existent in some parishes and certainly with many Catholics. A correction of these abuses and other abuses of the GIRM is well in order.

A wise principal for priests and deacons is as follows: Do the RED letters and Read the black letters. No more, no less.

Reverence towards the Eucharist is non-existent in some parishes and certainly with many Catholics.

This is certainly true. Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration might help that.

At our Cathedral there is a chapel of the Blessed Sacrament. Before and after Mass there are always people there praying and visitors just think nothing of walking in and snapping flash photographs, posed pictures, whatever. They even talk in there. And most of these people are Catholics there for Mass.